Flip the Script: Say yes to being human

Day One hundred-five

Say yes to being human.

Take my hands. Close your eyes. Now feel.

Jim Palmer:

I don’t think I can ever forget the ending of the Barbie movie. There Barbie was — wanting to give up all the scripts, and the pressures to be perfect, all the denials, pretense, inauthenticity, filters, and fake smiles of her made-up Barbie world. She asked Ruth what she needed to do to say goodbye to Barbie world and be human in the real world. She was told to close her eyes and feel… to feel it all… to feel what it really meant to be human.

The deal with being human is that there are 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows. You don’t know what will kill you first, the beauty of the world or the sorrow of it. The sorrows don’t prevent the joys, and the joys don’t spare you of the sorrows. Look, it’s not easy for anyone to leave Barbie world and be real. But after seeing and feeling all of it, Barbie said, “Yes.” What is that “yes”? It’s the “yes” of truly being present for it all. Being all there.

Maybe what I learned most from the Barbie movie is the need to say “yes” to being human and lived human experience… all of it. Maybe that means learning how to say “yes” to the joys and sorrows of your own life and saying “yes” to the process of healing and becoming…